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Mexico Cruising Season 2025-2026 Begins Strong

Right now, hundreds of West Coast boaters are beginning to explore Mexico’s Baja and Pacific coastal waters, all part of the first wave of the Mexico cruising season. Kudos to

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How to Hop Down Baja in Four Easy Legs

Nearly two thousand U.S.- and Canadian-flagged vessels are gearing up to invade Mexican waters starting right during Halloween and Day of the Dead celebrations. Sneaky military tactic, you ask? Nope,

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Mexico Marinas Improve the Online “Paperwork Cha Cha”

The Association of Mexican Marinas (AMMT) is offering improved instructions and websites to help U.S. recreational boaters heading to Mexico more easily complete the maze of INM (Immigration) paperwork requirements

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Summer Boating (Hiding Out) in the Upper Sea of Cortez

Boaters throughout Mexico’s cruising grounds are now considering where to locate themselves for 2023’s fast approaching hurricane season, especially since NOAA recently announced the 62 percent possibility of El Nino

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Lower Sea of Cortez Options for Summering Over

Last issue we transited the tricky Gulf of Tehuantepec to reach safe summer harbors south of the hurricane-genesis zone. This time, let’s explore some options for where to summering over

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Time to Transit the Gulf of Tehuantepec?

Spring has sprung, and summer is approaching, so boaters throughout Mexico are discussing where they will spend hurricane season 2023. This column will discuss each of the most likely choices

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Mexico Report

As the year 2023 awakens across Mexico’s 3,500 nautical miles of Pacific coastlines, here are four brief items of interest to U.S. recreational boaters, cruisers, and fishing folk. Gonzaga Update: Shore

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La Paz: Cruisers’ Gateway to the Sea of Cortez

In my previous column, we started from Los Cabos and poked into 11 good little cruising spots while rounding the bulge of Baja’s East Cape region. Then transited the San